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title: vSphere default checks and policies
description: Agent Client Collector provides the following default checks and policies for vSphere monitoring.
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release: australia
product: Agent Client Collector
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topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [ACC-M default checks and policies, ACC-M reference, Agent Client Collector reference, Agent Client Collector, IT Operations Management]
---

# vSphere default checks and policies

Agent Client Collector provides the following default checks and policies for vSphere monitoring.

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Type

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Check

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Description

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Usage

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Output

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Metric

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vsphere.metric-VirtualMachine

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Retrieves metrics for a vSphere virtual machine. Must use a proxy agent.

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`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R VirtualMachine -v vm_id -r true -i 20` where:

-   -H = hostname Instance Hostname
-   -i = intervalId 20 for real time metrics; 300 for 5 minutes older aggregate metrics \(default 300\)
-   -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)

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`vsphere.VirtualMachine.disk.usage.average.total 8 1654755994`

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Type

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Check

</th><th>

Description

</th><th>

Usage

</th><th>

Output

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Metric

</td><td>

vSphere.metric-Datastore

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Retrieves Metrics for vSphere Datastore. Must use a proxy agent.

</td><td>

`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R Datastore -v vm_id -r` where:

-   -H = hostname Instance Hostname
-   -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)

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`vsphere.Datastore.disk.capacity.latest.total 21474836480 1655182836`

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Type

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Check

</th><th>

Description

</th><th>

Usage

</th><th>

Output

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Metric

</td><td>

vsphere.metric-Datacenter

</td><td>

Retrieves metrics for the vSphere datacenter.

</td><td>

`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R Datacenter -v vm_id -r` where:

-   -H = hostname Instance Hostname
-   -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)

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```
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeDS.latest.total 217 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeHost.latest.total 1373 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeHostDS.latest.total 9 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numClone.latest.total 192 1655194924

```

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Type

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Check

</th><th>

Description

</th><th>

Usage

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Output

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Metric

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vsphere.metric-ESX\_Server

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Retrieves metrics for vSphere ESX server or HostSystem. Must use a proxy agent.

</td><td>

`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R HostSystem -v vm_id -r` where:

-   -H = hostname Instance Hostname
-   -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)

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```
vsphere.HostSystem.net.broadcastRx.summation.total 63885 1655198166
vsphere.HostSystem.net.broadcastTx.summation.total 196 1655198166
vsphere.HostSystem.net.bytesRx.average.total 5924 1655198166
```

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